Improvement in button-fasteners for shoes



- UNTTED STATES CHARLES E. SPENCER, OF ROCHESTER, NEV YORK.

IMPROVEMENT IN BUTTON-FASTENERS FOR SHOES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 99.724, dated FebruaryP, lO.

To aJ/Z whom t may concern.

Be it known that I, CHARLES F. SPENCER, of Rochester, in the county ofMonroe and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Boot andShoe Fastening; and I do hereby declare the following to be a clear andeX- act description of the nature thereof, sufficient to enable othersskilled in the art to which my invention appertains to fully understandand use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings,making part of this specification, in which- Figure l is a view of ashoe having my iniprovement applied thereto. tral longitudinal sectionof the f'astener. Eig. 3 is a perspective view. Fig. 4t is aside view.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the severalfigures.

My invention relates to improvements in boot and shoe fastenings; and itconsists in the employment of a recessed supportingplate provided withspurs on its upper surface to take hold of the under surface of theleather or fabric of the shoe to which the fastening is applied, inconnection with a bent pin, which is made to enter an eye on thebutton-shank, thereby securely attaching the button, as hereinafter morefully set forth.

In the drawings, a represents the supporting-plate, having on its uppersurface the spurs b b, and recessed or notched, as shown at c.

d is a bent pin or hook, which is secured to the upper surface of theplate a, opposite to the recess in said plate.

e represents an ordinary button, having an eye in its shank.

It will be seen that the point of the pin or hook projects into thenotch or recess c.

In applying the fastening, the pin or hook Fig. 2 is a cenf isintroduced into the fabric, so that the supporting-plate a will restagainst the lower or under surface of the fabric, the spurs orprojections b b taking hold of the fabric, and the recess c beingopposite to the point of strain upon the button. The fastening havingthus been attached to the fabric, the pin is made to pass through theeye of the button, thus securely attaching thel button, and any strainupon the button will but tend to move it toward the end of plate, towhich the pin is se cured, from which it cannot become detached unlesssome of its parts break.

The object of the recess in the supportingplate is twofold: It allowsthe pin or hook to sink down into, the fabric, to prevent the eye of thebutton from becoming detached from the pin, and it allows an easyapplication of the eye of the button to the pin, the fabric, by reasonof the recess, giving way to the pressure ofthe eye in putting on thebutton.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is-

1. The supporting-plate, notched at one side, and having secured at itsopposite side a hook or pin whose point projects over or into the notch,and all operating together sub,

stantially as described. 2. rIhe recessed supporting-plate a, providedwith the spurs b b, in combination with the pin or hook d, substantiallyas and for the purpose described. w

To the above I have signed my name this 26th day of J anuary, 1870.

CEAS. F. SPENCER. Witnesses:

JOHN A. WIEDERsHEIM, WM. J. PEYTON.

